Why (Just About) Every Design Team is Toxic Right Now

We are living through a moment of fearfulness in our profession. The churning and burning through employees, especially in Tech, is causing entrenchment among those who still have jobs and are afraid

While working at a software company, I found myself caught in a quandary that many leaders face: the team I was leading was low-performing and needed to improve its game, but to do so I would have to speak truths that they and my leadership did not want to hear. I worried that doing the right thing for the team and company would subject me to negative f…